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• This week's hearing focused largely on whether the shooting of Williams in the McCahren home was an accident, as the defense argued, or murder.
• Defense attorneys William Taylor and Brad Schreiber argued that McCahren had not tried to shoot anyone and that the gun was fired accidentally. A gun expert testified that it was possible a shell had been "hidden" in the gun and wasn't found until it was fired.
• The defense also used behavioral experts who testified that McCahren suffered emotional and physical problems in which he had difficulty judging right from wrong. Taylor told Brown that this was not a murder case.
• "It seems to me like an impulsive young man who did something incredibly stupid that he will regret the rest of his life," Taylor said.
• But special prosecutor Michael Moore, the Beadle County state's attorney, argued that McCahren had a history of violent, reckless behavior since childhood. Moore said the other juvenile witness at the scene said McCahren had aimed the 20-gauge shotgun at him two or three times and pulled the trigger two or three times before shooting Williams.
• "He took a gun, pointed it at somebody and pulled the trigger again and again," Moore told Brown. "Normal teenagers don't do this. This is not juvenile boys being boys."
• In his ruling, Brown called the shooting a tragedy for everyone and said McCahren's behavior "was aggressive, it was violent and it was willful."
• KCCR-AM reported that when Brown announced his ruling, sobs could be heard from the Williams family and also from those on McCahren's side. McCahren showed no visible emotion as he was led out of the courthouse.
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• VERMILLION, S.D. (AP) -- Former University of South Dakota men's basketball coach and athletic director Jack Doyle has died.
• USD says he died Friday at age 80.
• He joined the athletic department in 1971 after 14 seasons in South Dakota high schools. He became head coach in 1973 and coached for nine seasons, leading the Coyotes to a 106-119 record.
• Doyle was USD's athletic director from 1982 until his retirement in 1998.
• Under his leadership, USD won 21 North Central Conference championships in various sports. He also initiated numerous upgrades to the DakotaDome, including an eight-lane, 200-meter track, a new custom scoreboard and artificial turf for foot

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